How Facebook’s leaders fought through crisis

While Mr. Zuckerberg has conducted a public apology tour in the last year, Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.

Revealing, but unsurprising recount of how Facebook went on the attack to ward off the numerous criticisms of the company. It doesn’t susprise me one bit that Facebook isn’t just a terrible company on the outside, but also on the inside.

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Good point. “Who would not be on the list?” is probably easier. Monopolies seem to be inherently doomed to become enemies of the people. And through no fault of their own if it is a category problem. Maybe blame shareholder interests, but that is all of us with a pension or a trading account. Thus it is a vicious circle or entropy well that will need focused disruption to break.

Software companies seem to be the ones mostly to become monopolies off all sectors. But maybe also easiest to be replaced.

Always hope monopolies get complacent and some smaller company ends up coming up with something new and takes a good chuck of the market, but not to big (but usually it ends up being the new monopoly).

There is no profit in starvation. Capitalism causes poverty but usually not starvation. That is usually caused by political unrest locally. The west can alleviate some pain but can’t cure starvation in these countries until they get their own acts together.

Here is a list of countries of the world that starving to death based on the GHI: